I agree, I think Lemmy should add an option to fetch all the historical posts from a remote community. Right now it just starts federating from when the first person subscribes to that community, but it would be better if it was retroactive.

Wow, TIL.

I based that off fedidb but it seems to be very inaccurate. Obviously it wasn’t tracking until a certain point in Lemmy development.

I’ll make a list of the major instances from before the APIcalpyse of June 2023 that are still active. For the Lemmy historians 🧐. I’m mostly basing this by the top admin account on each server, because the admins are listed in order of seniority in the sidebar.

• lemmy.ml - Apr 2019
• lemmygrad - Aug 2019
• hexbear/chapo - July 2020
• szmer.info - Aug 2020
• lemmy.ca - Dec 2020
• sopuli.xyz - Feb 2021
• midwest.social - Aug 2021
• mander.xyz - Dec 2021
• beehaw.org - Jan 2022
• slrpnk.net - April 2022
• feddit.it - May 2022
• lemmy.blahaj.zone - Jan 2023
• infosec.pub - May 2023

Honorable mention to feddit.de which was an early instance too IIRC and now lives on in feddit.org

This is largely just an interesting piece of trivia, but also somewhat notable because servers generally don’t federate content from before they were founded. So the older servers will have local copies of posts and comments from the early days of Lemmy.

For instance @[email protected] actually has 2.37k posts and 1.73k comments. But sh.itjust.works only caches about 850/800 posts/comments from that account, because we only joined the network in June 2023.

Surely has to be https://sopuli.xyz/

The admin is a Finn, although the servers are technically in Germany.

Also it’s extra cool because it’s one of the true OG Lemmy servers, founded in June 2021.

All centralized services. The fediverse is theoretically resistant to that kind of process.

Also you forgot Limewire, the GOAT

Finally, I have been waiting for this.

Lemm.ee over 4,000 MAUs. Lemmy.ca and lemmy.dbzer0.com up to 1.5k after hovering around 1k for most of 2024. All of the major servers seeing solid growth. Good work lemmings, keep it up

Snowrunner is dope, on god fr fr

Also welcome to Lemmy if you’re new! Or even if you’re not, thank you for your contribution 🫡

What’s my favorite high?!

non-drug

Aight imma head out

It’s not better than Middle Earth. But it is very cool. I need to reread, I’ve only read it once and that was over a decade ago.

The Amazon show was so disappointing but kinda inspired me to read the books again. It’s just such a daunting task to get started 😅

It’d be nice if we could set Marv up on Lemmy

Wow this guide is really good and easy to read on mobile, amazing work!

Once you’ve read the Silmarillion, there’s also The Children of Húrin. If you start from the Hobbit > LOTR > Silmarillion > CoH, it’s basically a steady progression of increasing epicness and tragedy.

I suppose the Silmarillion is the most epic, but Children of Húrin is the most intensely tragic.

Yes this is good to know, I wasn’t aware of the background with some of the fediverse projects.

I don’t understand the question. Pretty much all fediverse software was built with federation in mind from the start. They all started from scratch afaik, nothing was built on top of a centralized design.

They also happen to perform similar functions as earlier centralized websites, but that’s simply because those are the ways that people commonly prefer to use the internet. People use it to share photos, stream videos, connect with friends, microblog, blog, browse content aggregators, etc.

There could definitely be new paradigms of internet usage waiting to be discovered, but if the fediverse can’t even replace the existing functionality of the web first, it’d be very ambitious to start building brand new types of sites already.

That’s true, originally only users that posted or commented were counted as active. Then they changed it to count users who had voted as active, even if they didn’t post or comment.

But I believe that change occured almost one year ago, in March 2024. You can see a big spike of active users at that time. Starting this January we’ve seen some really nice organic growth, although it’s not nearly to the level of the API exodus. We still need more users, but it’s really encouraging to see some solid growth after over a year of stagnation/slow decline.

Wow. Absolute legend

Tbf, Kendrick Lamar is an unbelievably talented musician. Drake is just a lame ass celebrity, you can easily ignore him and be better off.

But Kendrick has made some really fantastic albums. If you’re not into rap than you might not care too much anyway, but he doesn’t belong in the same conversation as Drake, despite their dumb ass feud.

I don’t even like hip-hop that much but Section 80 and Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City are easily among my favorite albums of all time.

https://discuit.net/

One of the more commonly recommended reddit alternatives aside from Lemmy. Goes to show how far ahead we are of any other alternative, they all have virtually no activity.

Also note that we bottomed out around 37k in October 2024, so we have seen pretty significant growth since then, and it seems to be accelerating.

Lol for real?

The main thing I heard about Bluesky is that it costs like $100 mill to run your own instance or something like that, so they only have one main instance for now. They technically have federation, but for all intents and purposes, it’s just another centralized corporate service waiting to be enshittified.

DM me the email you used to sign up. I will see if there was an error and resend it.

Lol that’s a good one, subscribed